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Terminology

AGWA Amman Governorate Water Administration
API ]Application Programming Interface
ASCII ]American Standard Code for Information Interchange
aSL above Sea Level
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
COBOSS Billing Software Package programmed in the Cobol programming language
CSS Comprehensive Subscribers Survey
CV Check Valve
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DLS Department of Lands & Survey
DN Diameter Nominal
ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute
GI Galvanized Iron
GIS Geographic Information System
GNOME GNU Object Model Environment
GNU GNU is Not Unix
GTZ Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit
GUI Graphical User Interface
HA Hydraulic Analysis
HDPE High Density Polyethylene Pipes
IRR Internal Rate of Return
IRWA Irbid Water Administration
JICA Japanese International Cooperation Agency
JOD Jordanian Dinar
KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
LEMA Lyonnaise des Eaux, Montgomery Watson, Arabtech Jardaneh, Management Contractor for Greater Amman Water Supply and Wastewater Services
LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License
LS Lump Sum
MWI Ministry of Water and Irrigation
OMG Object Management Group
OMS Operations Management Support Project
PMU Planning and Management Unit
PRV Pressure Reducing Valve
PE Polyethylene
PK Primary Key
RJGC Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre
PSP Private Sector Participation
SCADA Supervising Control And Data Acquisition
SOV Structured Query Language
SQL Shut Off Valve
SOGREAH French Consultant
UFW Unaccounted-For Water
UML Unified Modeling Language
USAID US Agency for International Development
WAJ Water Authority of Jordan
WLRP Water Loss Reduction Program
XML eXtensible Markup Language

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